Town of Brownsburg
Description
Principal Function: The Senior Planner manages highly complex and fast-paced planning assignments, and performing advanced technical and administrative work, supervising and monitoring community development activities, programs and projects, ensuring compliance with applicable rules and regulations, maintaining records and files, preparing reports, and related work as apparent or assigned
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Duties include, but are not limited to:
Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty according to the requirements of the Town of Brownsburg. The requirements below represent the required knowledge, skill, and/or ability. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties and responsibilities.
Education and/or Experience: A Bachelor's Degree in Urban Planning, Geography, Information Science, Public Administration, Political Science, or a related field. May substitute ten (10) years of progressive experience for a degree. Must have a minimum of 5 years' customer service experience and 5 years' experience in planning local government management; community and neighborhood development; code administration; ordinance development; or public administration. AICP certification is required.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties and responsibilities.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee frequently will stand, walk, lift, and/or move up to 50 pounds without an assistive device (greater weights may be required using an assistive device). The employee occasionally will climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less), distance vision (clear vision at 20 feet or more), color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors), peripheral vision (ability to observe an area that can be seen up and down or to the left and right while eyes are fixed on a given point), depth perception (three-dimensional vision, ability to judge distances and spatial relationships), and the ability to adjust focus (ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus).
Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here represent those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties and responsibilities.
This job operates primarily in the general community with moderate safety/health hazard potential. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud. However, job duties will require employees to perform skilled labor with high safety/health hazard potential.
While the role follows a work schedule of 7 a.m. - 4:40 p.m., Monday through Friday, this job may require work beyond these hours, including nights, weekends, holidays, and on-call status.
Principal Function: The Senior Planner manages highly complex and fast-paced planning assignments, and performing advanced technical and administrative work, supervising and monitoring community development activities, programs and projects, ensuring compliance with applicable rules and regulations, maintaining records and files, preparing reports, and related work as apparent or assigned
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Duties include, but are not limited to:
- Acts on behalf of the Town as the liaison for the U.S. Census Bureau's Boundary and Annexation Surveys (BAS), Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA), New Construction Program (NCP) and other initiatives.
- Performs and manages complex and sensitive professional planning projects, research and analysis.
- Monitors and ensures compliance with local, state and federal laws.
- Provides overall management of planning-related issues.
- Administers, coordinates, directs and manages the implementation, development and deployment of the Town's Geographic Information System (GIS), including defining requirements, tasks and resource assignments.
- Develops and provides detailed ArcGIS training program(s) to Town Staff, and provides technical assistance as needed.
- Prepares, plans and manages the development of strategic, short-and long-term planning projects; gathering, interpreting and preparing data for studies, reports and recommendations; coordinating department activities with other departments and agencies, as needed.
- Advises the Director of Development Services on all planning related matters.
- Assists in budget preparation and administration, and monitors the expenditures for the Department.
- Assists with the application, interpretation and enforcement of local, state, and federal codes, ordinances and regulations, including, but not limited to: zoning and subdivision regulation, construction standards, and municipal and land use regulations.
- Assists with explaining, interpreting and enforcing the requirements of all related Plan Commission, Board of Zoning Appeals and Town Council approvals.
- Conducts reviews of various development applications, including but not limited to: subdivision plats; zoning map amendments; commitment amendments; development plans; variances; special exception uses; and other land use related requests.
- Conducts extensive research in specific or general project areas.
- Writes and presents formal and technical reports, working papers, and correspondence.
- Reviews architectural elevations and land use applications to ensure compliance with requirements such as materials, use, bulk, placement, and parking ratios.
- Prepares reports, ordinances and resolutions for the Plan Commission, BZA, and/or Town Council.
•Works with Town Attorney on planning-related projects, contracts, annexations and other projects as needed.
•Researches, develops, implements and/or reviews, interprets and recommends changes to specifications, standards, policies, procedures, codes, regulations, and ordinances that relate to the department's goals, objectives, policies and procedures.
•Participates in local, regional and state initiatives, task-forces, events and related professional committees. - Reviews legal descriptions for right-of-ways, easements, plan cases, and annexations.
•Identifies community problems, issues and opportunities in particular neighborhoods that could be mitigated through better community planning.
•Evaluates adequacy of community facilities to meet current and projected needs.
•Participates in project review meetings with various town departments.
•Attends and presents planning items at Plan Commission, Board of Zoning Appeals, and Town Council meetings, as needed.
•Manages, guides and directs day-to-day work of associate planning staff.
•Provides assistance to staff regarding enforcement of municipal code, zoning and subdivision regulations.
•Maintains strict confidentiality regarding Town issues, and sensitive economic development projects.
•Thorough knowledge of and ability to make practical application of department and OSHA safety policies and procedures.
•All other duties as assigned by the Development Services Director and their designee.
Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty according to the requirements of the Town of Brownsburg. The requirements below represent the required knowledge, skill, and/or ability. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties and responsibilities.
Education and/or Experience: A Bachelor's Degree in Urban Planning, Geography, Information Science, Public Administration, Political Science, or a related field. May substitute ten (10) years of progressive experience for a degree. Must have a minimum of 5 years' customer service experience and 5 years' experience in planning local government management; community and neighborhood development; code administration; ordinance development; or public administration. AICP certification is required.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Ability to coordinate and effectively communicate orally and in writing with Director of Development Services, Building Commissioner, Town Manager, Assistant Town Manager, Town Council, co-workers, other Town Departments, contractors, vendors, and the public, including being sensitive to professional ethics, gender, cultural diversities, and disabilities.
- Thorough knowledge of an ability to make practical application of standard principles of local, state, federal zoning and subdivision control ordinances.
- Thorough knowledge of urban planning, development and local government policies, issues and procedures.
- Must have ability to read and interpret construction plans and specifications.
- Capable of managing multiple, high-priority assignments; and work on several projects or issues simultaneously.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively in writing and verbally with all personnel, customers, and elected and appointed officials; and develop good working relationships at various levels.
- Ability to provide effective supervision, staff management, and change management; with a minimum of 3 years' experience in employee supervision, and completion of Indiana Certified Public Supervisor training, or similar training.
- Strong knowledge and experience in Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, internet applications, ArcGIS, AutoCAD, and strong graphic communication skills.
- Strong analytical skills to interpret research data for reports and apply mathematical techniques in practical situations.
- Ability to regularly work extended hours, occasionally work evening and/or weekend hours, and occasionally travel out of town for training/conferences, sometimes overnight.
- Must have a safe work record with good ethics and a dependable attendance record.
- Must have and maintain a verifiable driver's license and demonstrated safe driving record, and remain insurable through the town's liability insurance carrier if applicable.
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties and responsibilities.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee frequently will stand, walk, lift, and/or move up to 50 pounds without an assistive device (greater weights may be required using an assistive device). The employee occasionally will climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less), distance vision (clear vision at 20 feet or more), color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors), peripheral vision (ability to observe an area that can be seen up and down or to the left and right while eyes are fixed on a given point), depth perception (three-dimensional vision, ability to judge distances and spatial relationships), and the ability to adjust focus (ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus).
Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here represent those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties and responsibilities.
This job operates primarily in the general community with moderate safety/health hazard potential. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud. However, job duties will require employees to perform skilled labor with high safety/health hazard potential.
While the role follows a work schedule of 7 a.m. - 4:40 p.m., Monday through Friday, this job may require work beyond these hours, including nights, weekends, holidays, and on-call status.